On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Scott Ritchie wrote: [...]
If the user never customizes the app-specific prefix with winecfg or similar, then copying the new registry should work yes?
Application configuration data (think Tools -> Options menu) is often stored in the registry...
Besides that there are other issues, most of which Dan already mentioned:
- As far as I know most overlay filesystems don't deal well with changes in the underlying filesystem. This pretty much breaks the upgrade scenario.
Do you mean upgrading while the filesystem is mounted? Or just any change at all?
It's definitely an issue in the former case. I don't know but would not be surprised if it is also an issue in the latter.